Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier guard. Then he stepped back, whipped out a revolver, fired two shots at the Chancellor. Doughty little Dollfuss staggered, then calmly walked to his automobile. Surgeons found one bullet in his shirt where it had bounced off a rib. The other had only scratched his arm. Safe and sound at home, the Chancellor prepared to make a radio broadcast that night. Meanwhile his assailant, an ex-soldier named Rudolph Dertil who had been ousted from the Army as a Nazi agitator, explained: "I wanted to show that Dollfuss is unable to take care of himself, much less the State...
...understand why students at Harvard who receive the finest education take such risks. They ought to know better. I guess the trouble is that their fathers have too much money and they don't take care of their cars. They don't park their cars in safe places while there are hi-jackers going around...
Second: In some Houses, contact in the dining halls between students and tutors has been continual, pleasant, and fruitful. In other Houses the tutors and associates have preferred to eat most of the time at "staff tables"; it is safe to say that any special staff table seems a superfluous institution; and that unwillingness of the tutors to mingle with undergraduates is resented by the latter...
Third: If, therefore, cries of "House unity" are to stand in the way of fuller participation in college life by this group of students, the term deserves close scrutiny. This is a debatable topic. But it is safe to say, regarding "unity," that few, if any, men know all the members of their House. On entering the House library, or dining hall, they do not feel the sense of unity which a small summer camp or small preparatory school affords. Such unity as they will feel will come from their participation in House discussion groups, contact in the dining hall...
...Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...